Lecture Notes: The Power of Love

Key Points

Love as a Driving Force
- Love for what you do, your team, and your clients makes you a powerful force.
- Love is described as the greatest performance strategy, customer service tool, team-building technique, and leadership strategy.
Impact of Love
- Research indicates that feelings in your heart radiate to every cell in your body and can be felt up to 5-10 feet away.
- People can sense your love, care, and energy, as well as apathy and indifference.
Love and Greatness
- If you don’t love what you do, you will never become great at it.
- Love is the driving force behind greatness and grit.
- Grit, the number one predictor of success, is driven by love.
- Love prevents you from quitting on your clients, family, and work.
- What is built with fear crumbles, but what is built with love endures.
Examples and Perspectives
- Pavarotti: Described his discipline as actually being driven by devotion (an act of love) rather than sheer discipline.
Practical Applications
- If you try to be disciplined without love, it feels like swimming upstream.
- Loving what you do makes you want to improve and show up every day.
- Use love to overcome negativity, busyness, and stress.
- Reconnect with the love for what you do when you feel down or negative.
Love and Fear
- Love casts out fear, the number one obstacle to reaching your destiny and future.
- Maintaining love in your work helps you to overcome fear.